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C. H.. FROST.

Sad Iron Heater.

No. 58,629. Patented Oct. 9, 1866.

WEE-1e 533.5; 7 J 7 UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

CHARLES H. FROST, OF PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK.

SAD-IRON HEATERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5@,629, dated October 9, 1866;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. FRosT, of Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sad-Iron Heaters; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a sad-iron heater made according to my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view, showinghow an iron is made to enter the heater. Fig. 3 is a front view.

This invention has for itsobject to simplify and improve the construction and operation of sadiron heaters, whereby I lessen their cost, diminish their liability to get out of order, and increase their usefulness.

The invention relates to that kind of sadiron heaters which has pits or depressions that receive the irons that are to be heated, and consists in so making the covers of said pits or depressions that they are raised by pushing the irons against them when the operator desires to place suehirons in the pits.

The letter A designates a sad-iron heater made according to my invention. In this example it has three pits, B, which consist of depressions that extend downward from the bottom of the plate which forms the body of the heater.

The plate is made of any suitable shape and size to suit the stove with which it is to be used, the shape here. shown being adapted for covering the opening that is made in the top of a stove by removing the covers of two boiler-holes and the usual intervening loose plate.

The end of the plate is provided with handles G, for convenience in handling it, and a flange, D, projects from its border, for the purpose of overlapping the edge of the opening in the stove.

The letters E E E designate three covers, which are hinged at their narrow ends, as seen at F F F, to the upper surface of the heater. The said covers have slots extending from a point near th eir hinged ends up to and through their front ends, for the purpose of receiving the handles of the sad-irons, and allowing the covers to close the tops of the pits when the irons are put in them to be heated. The said slots are formed along the middle of the width of the covers, so as to be over the middle line of the pits.

The covers exceed the pits in size both in length and breadth, so as to overlap their edges when the covers are closed.

In Fig. 1, I have represented one of the covers E thrown open,.exposing the pit B, to which it belongs. The same figure shows the handle H of a sadiron projecting upward through the slot of another of the covers, which is shut down over the body of the iron, so as to inclose it in the pit beneath, the body of the iron being seen in dotted outline.

Then the heater A is in use its covers be come very hot, so that it becomes very difficult and inconvenient to handle them for the purpose of raising them to admit the irons into the pits when they are to be heated and reheated from time to time. On this account it is desirable that the hands of the operator be relieved-from this task, and be saved from the danger of becoming burned in consequence of taking hold of the covers to lift them previous to inserting the irons.

In order to accomplish these results I have turned up the front ends of the covers at G G on each side of the slots, so as to admit the nose of an iron beneath such covers when the iron is brought forward in order to enter the pits. The said front ends of the covers are made to flare upward and outward sufflcient to permit them, at the parts G G of the respective covers, to ride up easily upon the tops of the irons over the sides of their points or noses, thereby raising the covers, and consequently permitting the handles of the irons to enter the slots of the covers, the said covers resting on the irons while the latter are being shoved into the pits. When they have passed into the pits the covers close down by their own weight and inclose the bodies of the irons in said pits, only the handles projecting thereout.

The depth of the pits is a little greater than the thickness of the sad-irons, so as to allow thecovers to rest on the edges of the pits when I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letthe irons are in place. ters Patent, is

The covers may be of any suitable material. Bending up or flaring the front ends of the They can be made of cast-iron, being cast to covers of sad-iron heaters, so as to allow the the required shape; or they can be made of nose or point of a sad-iron to be inserted besheet or wrought metal, being then stmek up neath said covers to raise them, substantially or swaged to such shape. as set forth.

I hereby disclaim the inventions in sad-iron heaters patented to J. S. Brooks, November 25, 1862, and to J. N. Titsworth, September Witnesses:

CHAS. H. FROST.

27, 1864; but MrroHELL LAIRD, Having thus described my invention, what MARTIN lVIOSES, Jr. 

